She cooks chicken curry with lime rice, but John is offended by the lack of a real kick.

“Think that me and him are softies, do ya?”

Gregg contradicts him by being a big softie, describing Ping’s dish as “adorable” and “addictive”.

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Ben hopes his prawn and egg biryani with prawn bisque is a way of introducing Indian cooking to British palates who are more used to French food.

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John doesn’t get it either.

“You just need to believe in one dish,” he says.

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Judy also puts too much in one dish - ratatouille, potato rosti and poached egg – and is advised to “simplify” her cooking.

No one cooks outstanding food. Mum-of-five Rebecca, originally from Sweden, gets kudos for “walking in with an octopus” but tastebuds are merely tickled. James makes his own pasta but piles too much on his salmon ravioli and drowns it in a vat of watercress sauce.

Invention test time, and John takes the mystery box challenge before the contestants have a go.